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APIs and Internals

As detailed on the limitations of the Compatibility Layer, the org.eclipse.ui.presentations API has been removed and the org.eclipse.ui.themes extension point is being ignored for some select cases. These references should be searched for to ensure that they have been refactored out into a separate bundle to prevent problems when using the original plug-in on a 4.x base.

The org.eclipse.ui.actionSets extension point has been deprecated in the 4.x stream. While they may still be used on 3.x, it is recommended to migrate code that uses the actionSets and objectContributions extension points to the Eclipse 3.3 org.eclipse.ui.menus extension point.

It should be noted that the absence of compiler errors does not indicate API-cleanliness. Interfaces marked with @noimplement may be being implemented and classes marked with @noextend may have been subclassed. Care should be taken to ensure that these API tags are being honoured.

Using Eclipse 4 Features

The Eclipse 3.x Compatibility Layer is an Eclipse 4 application on its own right, however it makes many assumptions in how it uses the Eclipse 4 application model. Eclipse 4.2 does not officially support hybridization of Eclipse 3.x apps interacting with the underlying Eclipse 4 model.

Dependency Injection

IWorkbenchParts are not injected, and it can be a bit of a pain to expose injection to apps based on the E3.x APIs.

Poor Man's Injection

In Eclipse 4, the implementors of IServiceLocator are performed using the IEclipseContext. So view parts and editor parts can resolve items through the context using IWorkbenchSite#getService(XXX). For example, to obtain the IEclipseContext, you might do the following: